Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Every one shall die for his own iniquity.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Trust me, people that know me know I ain't perfect, but I do try to live my life in a way that hopefully can be pleasing to my maker because I know I'm going to meet Him one day, and He's not going to pat me on the back and talk about how many wins I had or how many Coach of the Year trophies we got or how much money I made.

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.